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The word
تَذْكَرة

tadhkara

ticket, a ticket
Arabicتَذْكَرة
Arabizitadhkara
Translationticket, a ticket
TypeFeminine noun
Audio
Native speaker, MSA
Letter by letter

The word, broken down.

تَذْكَرة reads right to left. Below, in reading order, each letter — its sound, its shape, its place in the syllable.

01
Letter
ت
tāʾ
t

A plain 't'. The same body as bāʾ, but with two dots above.

Type:J
02
Diacritic
ـَ
fatḥa
a

A short 'a' — a small stroke written above the letter.

Type:Shift+Q
03
Letter
ذ
dhāl
dh

The 'th' in 'this'. Like dāl, with one dot above.

Type:`
04
Letter
ك
kāf
k

A plain 'k'.

Type:;
05
Diacritic
ـَ
fatḥa
a

A short 'a' — a small stroke written above the letter.

Type:Shift+Q
06
Letter
ر
rāʾ
r

A rolled 'r' — closer to Spanish than English.

Type:V
07
Letter
ة
tāʾ marbūṭa
a

The 'tied tāʾ' — marks a feminine ending, sounded as a soft 'a'.

Type:M
← First letter shown leftmost; the actual word is read right-to-left in script.
How to type it

The keystrokes, in order.

On a standard Arabic 101 / Arabic-PC layout — 8 key presses. Diacritics sit on the Shift keys. The on-screen keyboard on this site highlights each key as you go.

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Sequence
  1. 01Jت
  2. 02Shift+Qـَfatḥa
  3. 03`ذ
  4. 04Shift+Xـْ
  5. 05;ك
  6. 06Shift+Qـَfatḥa
  7. 07Vر
  8. 08Mة
Composedتَذْكَرة
تَذْكَرة
Practice

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